Marylaine Block reviews a new book by Mary Minow and Tomas A. Lipinski which focuses on the many legal issues that confront today’s libraries, including the Patriot Act, fair use, web filtering, censorship and web site accessibility. The Library’s Legal Answer Book is targeted at the public library community, but this work by two expert lawyer/librarian authors, complete with extensive legal citations, will no doubt be of interest to special and law libraries as well.
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Daily Archives: May 2, 2003
Florida Net Filtering Bill Proceeds
On April 23, the Florida House passed HB 415: Relating to Internet Access in County and Municipal Libraries. The related Senate Bill, CS/SB 1250: Relating to Public Libraries/Computers has been referred to the Criminal Justice Committee. Continue Reading
Digital Learning
Creating a Unified Digital Campus to Satisfy the Needs of 21st Century Learners:..”institutions must strive to unify all of their disparate technology applications and systems into a single digital campus.” From the Michigan Virtual University. Continue Reading
Updated Search Engine Resource
See Search Engines by Search Features by Greg Notess for a useful comparison of search engines according to their specific features (Boolean Capabilities and Constraints, Proximity, Truncation & Stemming, Case Sensitivity, Field searching, Limits and more). Continue Reading
Privacy, E-Gov and the Public
“The U.S. Public Policy Committee of the Association for Computing Machinery sent a letter to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget offering comment on their work to develop privacy guidelines for e-communications between government agencies and the public.” From the letter: “In particular, we are offering comments on the development of public… Continue Reading
Web Resources on KM
Knowledge in a Click! by Robert J. Ambrogi references a number of websites and portals focused on KM applications related to or specific to the legal environment. Continue Reading
Resources from FTC Spam Forum
Agenda, last updated April 29, 2003 (pdf) Panelist Biographies (pdf) FTC SPAM EMAIL Website (This website has information about the Federal Trade Commissions recent law enforcement actions against deceptive commercial email and spammers who dont honor their “remove me” claims) Educational Materials from the Conference: You’ve Got Spam: How to “Can” Unwanted Emails (pdf) Email… Continue Reading
Students Settle Music Copyright Infringement Cases
The recording industry agreed to settlements of the copyright infringement lawsuits, filed separately against four college students on April 3, in federal courts in New York, Michigan and New Jersey. According to AP, the fines are as follows: “Princeton University student Daniel Peng and Michigan Tech student Joseph Nievelt each agreed to pay $15,000 in… Continue Reading
